Portland native and longtime music blogger, Ed spends his time volunteering with PDX Pop Now!, fronting local country outfit, Ed & The Red Reds, and working at Portland Music Company. I guess he kind of likes music a little.
For fans of experimental Pop & Jazz in Portland, last night’s bill was a kind of miracle, almost like a mini festival with music past two in the morning.
As a band that seems to thrive on twisting and breaking people’s expectations in music, Radiohead proved this month that they have still more tricks up their collective sleeves. Industry folk, critics and fans alike have been reeling since Radiohead’s surprise announcement and release of “The King Of Limbs,” their eighth studio album.
The songs of Leonard Mynx have a way of getting under your skin. The Portland-based troubadour has quietly churned out great folk music for years and he shows it again on his second LP.
Local MC Mic Crenshaw ran (literally) into some trouble with security at a downtown SmartPark when he decided to jog up and down the stairs at the garage neighboring his gym. Crenshaw was detained and questioned by security guards and was issued a criminal trespassing notice excluding him from the premises.
The Tumblers somehow managed to turn Portland’s hippest venue into a gawd damned honky tonk. How? Read the Q&A.
There must be a hole in the bucket that is January. Tracks are leaking from Portland’s best talents faster than we can catch ‘em with this one coming from one of Portland’s most talented and diverse young MCs: Tope. Alongside Prem, the duo go by the title Living Proof.
It feels good to kick off 2011 with some big news from a local fav… and local electro-darlings Starfucker have delivered… thrice over!
“We’re babies dressed as Here We Go Magic!” exclaimed a diapered Luke Temple on stage at the Doug Fir on Halloween.
Everyone is familiar with the feeling of sitting on solid gold. It’s that peculiarly pleasing sensation of unique discovery that die-hard consumers of art live for. If you haven’t picked up a copy of Sean Flinn’s “Write Me a Novel,” then you’re missing out on one of the best songwriter albums to come out of Portland this year.
Destroyer’s ninth studio album, “Kaputt,” will be hitting shelves January 25th via Merge Records.
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